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The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.64In this collection of stories Malamud displays his great gifts as a writer - his humour, his profound concern for all human life and his ability to transmute common things and people into a strange... -
Professor Andersen's Night by Dag Solstad
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €12.45It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pal Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the... -
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Jewish Identity in the "The Counterlife" by Philipp Roth: Stereotypes and their deconstruction by Lisa Kastl 9783656579977
RRP: €30.35Booksplease Price: €24.12Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656579977Author Lisa KastlFormat PaperbackPage Count 24Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
Feeling Jewish: (A Book for Just About Anyone) by Devorah Baum
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.41In this sparkling debut, a young critic offers an original, passionate, and erudite account of what it means to feel Jewish-even when you're not. Self-hatred. Guilt. Resentment. Paranoia. Hysteria... -
Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70The first novel by the great American novelist, now the subject of a major new film, Genius, starring Jude Law, Colin Firth, Dominic West and Nicole Kidman. Eugene Gant, born in 1900 to hard-drinking... -
The Making of Henry by Howard Jacobson 9780099472162
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €11.26One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to escape the North... -
Karoo by Steve Tesich 9780099777915
RRP: €13.08Booksplease Price: €9.70Oscar-winning writer Steve Tesich masterfully creates and destroys the sad, mad world of Saul Karoo.Karoo is an alcoholic who can't get drunk, a loving father who can't bear to be alone with his son,... -
The Ministry of Special Cases Nathan Englander 9781474611114
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Buenos Aires, 1970s. Kaddish Poznan chips the names off gravestones for a living, removing traces of disreputable ancestors for their more respectable kin. His wife Lillian works in insurance,... -
Leaving Other People Alone: Diaspora, Zionism, and Palestine in Contemporary Jewish Fiction by Aaron Kreuter
RRP: €36.88Booksplease Price: €31.80Leaving Other People Alone reads contemporary North American Jewish fiction about Israel/Palestine through an anti-Zionist lens. Aaron Kreuter argues that since Jewish diasporic fiction played a... -
Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss 9781408871812
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.20CHOSEN AS BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE OBSERVER, NEW YORKER, NEW YORK TIMES BOOKS REVIEW, TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT AND THE TIMES 'Lucid and exhilarating ... A great gift' New York Review of Books ... -
Basket of Deplorables: Shortlisted for the Edge Hill Prize Tom Rachman 9781786488749
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDGE HILL PRIZEAlmost-true stories for a post-truth worldWrong! Not Nice! Sad!A Manhattan party on election night. Liberal media types gather with big grins and high-end canapes... -
It All Adds Up: From the Dim Past to the Uncertain Future Saul Bellow 9780241401989
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'Sentence by sentence, page by page, Bellow is simply the best writer we have' The New York Times Book ReviewIn It All Adds Up, Pulitzer and Nobel Prize-winning author Saul Bellow takes readers on a... -
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €8.70Fading charmer Tommy Wilhelm has reached his day of reckoning and is scared. In his forties, he still retains a boyish impetuousness that has brought him to the brink of chaos: he is separated from... -
For the Relief of Unbearable Urges by Nathan Englander
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81Ruchama, a wigmaker from an ultra-orthodox Brooklyn enclave, journeys into Manhattan for inspiration, frequenting a newsstand where she flips through forbidden fashion magazines. An elderly Jew with... -
Roth and Celebrity by Aimee L. Pozorski 9780739197530
Booksplease Price: €61.52Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as... -
Roth and Celebrity by Aimee L. Pozorski 9780739170618
Booksplease Price: €114.66Roth and Celebrity is composed of 10 original essays that consider the vexed and ambivalent relationship between Philip Roth and his own celebrity as revealed both in personal interviews as well as... -
Long Island Compromise: A sensational new novel by the international bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble Taffy Brodesser-Akner 9781472273079
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.81'Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY'This book is DYNAMITE. Inhaled it in two sittings'... -
The Dark Circle: Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2017 by Linda Grant
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €9.54Shortlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction'Extraordinarily affecting' Alex Preston, Observer'This is a novel whose engine is flesh and blood, not cold ideas . . . Grant brings the 1950s -... -
Long Island Compromise: A sensational new novel by the international bestselling author of Fleishman Is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner 9781472273048
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.98'Is this book as good [as Fleishman]? It's better' THE NEW YORK TIMES'Might be a masterpiece' HUGH LAURIE'The best book I've read this year' HARLAN COBEN'Very, very good' ELIZABETH DAY'The book of... -
The Blessing and the Curse: The Jewish People and Their Books in the Twentieth Century by Adam Kirsch
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.73Following The People and the Books, which "covers more than 2,500 years of highly variegated Jewish cultural expression" (Robert Alter, The New York Times Book Review), poet and literary critic Adam... -
The Classical Tradition in Modern American Fiction by Tessa Roynon
RRP: €33.31Booksplease Price: €30.13This book is an invaluable survey of the allusions to ancient Greek and Roman culture in the work of seven major modern American novelists: Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Ralph... -
Post-War Jewish Fiction: Ambivalence, Self Explanation and Transatlantic Connections by David Brauner 9780333740354
Booksplease Price: €107.77In this groundbreaking study, David Brauner explores the representation of Jewishness in a number of works by postwar British and American Jewish writers, identifying a transatlantic sensibility... -
Colossus: A Novel by Ross Barkan 9781648211775
RRP: €35.69Booksplease Price: €23.68A stark and unsettling portrait of success, in the vein of Philip Roth and Jonathan Franzen, that revives the long-established intersection between ambition and corruption in the pursuit of the... -
Mutual Impact: At the Crossroads of Psychoanalysis and Literature by Joachim Küchenhoff 9781800131682
RRP: €30.93Booksplease Price: €27.12What can psychoanalysis contribute to the interpretation and understanding of cultural products, in particular, literary works? What, on the other hand, can novels and plays offer to widen the... -
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €7.18The death and burial of Addie Bundren is told by members of her family, as they cart the coffin to Jefferson, Mississippi, to bury her among her people. And as the intense desires, fears and... -
The Good Country: A History of the American Midwest, 1800-1900 by Jon K. Lauck 9780806190648
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €20.52At the center of American history is a hole-a gap where some scholars' indifference or disdain has too long stood in for the true story of the American Midwest. A first-ever chronicle of the... -
Materiality and the Modern Cosmopolitan Novel by Alan McCluskey 9781137503374
Booksplease Price: €55.62In this work, Alan McCluskey explores materialism, in its many conceptual forms, in the contemporary cosmopolitan novel. The author applies a 'cosmopolitan materialist' lens to the novels of Caryl... -
Leave It To Psmith by P. G. Wodehouse
RRP: €17.85Booksplease Price: €13.60It all starts with an umbrella, the best to be found in the Drones Club. From such an innocent beginning Wodehouse weaves a comic tale of suspense and romance involving one of his most distinctive... -
First Love, Last Rites Ian McEwan 9781784703608
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.91Taut, brooding and densely atmospheric, these stories show us the ways in which murder can arise out of boredom, perversity can result from adolescent curiosity, and sheer evil might be the solution... -
It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €10.98'An eerily prescient foreshadowing of current affairs' Guardian'Not only Lewis's most important book but one of the most important books ever produced in the United States' New YorkerA vain,... -
Leaving a Doll's House: A Memoir by Claire Bloom 9780316093835
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €16.66Writing with grace, wit, and remarkable candor, actress Claire Bloom looks back at her crowded life: her accomplishments on stage and screen; her romantic liaisons with some of the great leading men... -
Fallen Land by Patrick Flanery 9780857898791
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €7.94Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations, inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now, the farm has been carved up, the trees torn down; a... -
Teenage Time: Coming of Age Disruptively in Modern and Contemporary Literature, Culture and Film Pamela Thurschwell 9781350318427
Booksplease Price: €102.28Adolescence has been codified as an unpredictable, experimental and liminal time. Teenage Time reads this phase as queer in its framing and disruption of developmental narratives of modernity,... -
Between Friends by Amos Oz
Booksplease Price: €15.66Eight interlinked family dramas set on an Israeli kibbutz from the masterful storyteller behind A Tale of Love and Darkness'On the kibbutz it's hard to know. We're all supposed to be friends but very... -
The Life of Saul Bellow: Love and Strife, 1965-2005 by Zachary Leader
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €19.09The final volume of the definitive authorised biography of one of the greatest American writers.'A moving testament to one of the last century's greatest writers' Sunday TimesAt forty-nine, Saul... -
Leaving A Doll's House by Claire Bloom
Booksplease Price: €14.60In this memoir of personal discovery, loss and renewal, Claire Bloom looks beyond the stage and unveils her true identity. One of the most beautiful and gifted actresses of her generation, Claire... -
They Were Found Wanting and They Were Divided: The Transylvania Trilogy Vol. 2 by Miklos Banffy
RRP: €23.80Booksplease Price: €17.91The liberal hero, Balint, is at odds with the politics of his time; he lyrically describes the idyllic pre-industrial world of Hungarian Transylvania, later to fall into the hands of first the Nazis... -
Shylock Is Shakespeare Kenneth Gross 9780226309774
Booksplease Price: €25.05Shylock, the Jewish moneylender in The Merchant of Venice who famously demands a pound of flesh as security for a loan to his antisemitic tormentors, is one of Shakespeare's most complex and... -
In a Strange Room: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE by Damon Galgut
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISEA young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets... -
The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs: Author of the 2021 Booker Prize-winning novel THE PROMISE Damon Galgut 9781838958879
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €8.70FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE PROMISESHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE, 2003A year ago Patrick Winter was in Namibia completing his military service. Now, during the first free ...